Senior Principal Software Engineer

Principal Accountabilities

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Designing coding and debugging complex software applications and components as per industry standards and also in accordance to clients defined best practices.
• Act as an escalation point for highly complex technical issues provide guidance and help implement resolutions.
• Review existing software applications and propose solutions to improve performance and cost efficiency.
• Coach engineering teams on best practice and approaches to troubleshooting.
• Perform architectural and code reviews for complex solutions/components and recommend improvements.
• Help teams create and maintain a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery build/release pipeline.
• Recommend new technologies/tools/methods that can help increase productivity and efficiency.
• Perform initial (or ballpark) estimations for complex applications and problem resolutions based on high level requirements.
• Help colleaugues provide detailed estimations based at feature/ functionality level.
• Work within agreed timescales and costs.
• Recommending and reviewing implementation and technical aspects of application development and integration.
• Identifying potentials of new/emerging tools and methods and employ in application development.
• Leading and contributing into the technical discussions to drive better outcome for different stages of SDLC.
• Leading and contributing into technical documentation from compliance perspective.
• Conform to Clients Secure Software Development Lifecycle implementing security best practice.

Reporting Relationships

Lead Principal Software Engineers/Architects

Essential Competencies

• Must have 11 years of relevant experience with a minimum of 3 years as a Technical Architect or 5 as a Principal Software Engineer.
• Fluent in spoken English and able to take part in meetings and discussions.
• Proactive personality and able to work autonomously.
• Selfmotivated problem solver with a structured approach to providing solutions to complex issues.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
• Good team player.
• The ability to work to agreed deadlines.
• Ability to work at detailed and abstract levels.
• Ability to provide technical guidance to team members.
• Selflearner keeping skilled up on latest technologies and practices.
• Track record of delivering commitments on time and quality.

Skill Classification

Priority Rank

Description

Exp. (Years)

Mandatory

1

.Net Core

5

2

Cloud based PaaS/SaaS application development (Azure/ AWS)

5

3

ASP.NET MVC using C#.NET

10

4

Angular 2

5

5

JavaScript/ jQuery/ AJAX

10

6

HTML CSS / Bootstrap

10

7

MS SQL Server

10

8

Web API / WCF / Web Services

10

9

ORM (EF/ Dapper/ NHibernate/ ADO.Net)

8

10

Unit Testing framework (XUnit/ NUnit/ MSTest)

5

11

Wide range of database technology experience including Cosmos DB PostgreSQL MySQL

2

Highly Desirable

12

Other frontend technologies ( VueJs/ React/ Knockout)

2

13

Azure DevOps (Boards Git Pipelines CI/CD)

1

Desirable

14

Blazor

2

15

MongoDB Oracle DB

2

16

ASP.NET (Web Forms) using C#.NET

1